In my day job, I'm a writer, editor and information architect, specializing in cognitive computing and the impacts of same on everything from deep technical architectures to the broad impact of AI on society. I've been following the underlying technologies involved with GANs (the technical term for AI Art) for several years now, and think it is one of the most important trends to come from the computing world in more than a decade. I've also been a professional artist going back more than forty years, meaning that periodically I've made my living as an artist. As an art style, I go for what could best be considered magical realism - the attempt to make the magical appear perfectly possible. If you look at my portfolio going back several years, you can see that in practice - mermaids, centaurs, sirens, gorgons, steampunk, cyperpunk, spacepunk. Occasionally I make nods to different artists or movements, but overall that desire to create something that appears real though its not has been